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This is a symptom of your "Walmart" mentality.
LOL, That ad-hom is a symptom of the meritlessness of your argument.
Now recall your original question:
"Can you name an instance where AMD had superior products and didn't do well?"
Which stems from your earlier admission:
"When AMD has better products they prosper. When AMD has worse products they suffer. It's really not very complicated."
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With those in mind:
Having no knowledge of this business, all you can see is price. If chicken nuggets brand "A" is cheaper than chicken nuggets brand "I" and Walmart only carries brand "I" then there must be something fishy going on. After all, "parts is parts"... A clear open and shut case of bribery and collusion.
Now, to suit your Dell excuse/exception, you put words in my mouth implying I thought AMD chips were merely "cheaper" at the time!
NOT "superior" (your word) or "better" (your word).
IOW, your argument is so weak, you have to abandon it at the first sign of trouble.
While Intel does reward customer loyalty, Dell also considers product reliability, customer support, advertising assistance, availability, development tools, reference platforms, credible roadmaps and a host of other factors when making their vendor decisions. You completely ignore these major factors because they are beyond your comprehension. All you can see is price so all your Walmart mind can conclude is "parts is parts"...
More ad-homs and ad-hoc excuse making, as if the AMD products you described as being "superior" and "better" were lacking in reliability, customer support, etc. etc., during the period you tout AMD as "profiting." (These factors are simply gifted to Intel while baselessly denying AMD the same.)
(But I really would like to see you elaborate on this statement: "While Intel does reward customer loyalty, ..."
How so, EXACTLY?)
Isn't it funny how you ignore:
A) the emails coming right from the top of Dell, to the top of Intel, excoriating Intel for the craptasticness of their platform, in contrast to the AMD platform that was giving Dell's competitors a huge edge over Dell, and
B) the (improperly reported) $6B Intel gave to Dell over the period to remain Intel-only.
Now tell me how Dell was extorting Intel again... LOL!
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